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From: carolgrannick at comcast.net <carolgrannick>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:05:16 +0000
So many books changed my life in so many ways, large and small. At a very young age, Ferdinand affected me deeply - the courage Ferdinand had to quietly, calmly, go against all expectations and live the life he chose...I so wished for that courage, and eventually found it. Carol Coven Grannick Wilmette IL
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Edward T. Sullivan" <sully at discoveret.org>
>
> I don't think I can say it changed my life but the first book I remember
> really being nuts about is Thomas Rockwell's How To Eat Fried Worms. Maybe
> it was the first time I realized how totally entertaining reading could
> be. I thought that book was the funniest thing ever written and I read it
> over and over and over again. Now I recommend it to all my students when
> they ask for a funny story and I have not had one come back disappointed.
>
> As a teenager, I somehow managed to miss out on young adult literature.
> That's something I got hooked on in library school. The Catcher in the Rye
> was a novel that resonated with me in high school, as it still does with
> so many teens today. Albert Camus's The Stranger also really spoke to me.
> It's really a perfect book for teens. There is no greater existential
> absurdity than adolescence.
>
>
> Ed Sullivan, M.S.L.S.
> 103 Oneida Lane
> Oak Ridge, TN, 37830
>
> "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
> -John Lennon-
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Received on Mon 22 May 2006 06:05:16 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:05:16 +0000
So many books changed my life in so many ways, large and small. At a very young age, Ferdinand affected me deeply - the courage Ferdinand had to quietly, calmly, go against all expectations and live the life he chose...I so wished for that courage, and eventually found it. Carol Coven Grannick Wilmette IL
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Edward T. Sullivan" <sully at discoveret.org>
>
> I don't think I can say it changed my life but the first book I remember
> really being nuts about is Thomas Rockwell's How To Eat Fried Worms. Maybe
> it was the first time I realized how totally entertaining reading could
> be. I thought that book was the funniest thing ever written and I read it
> over and over and over again. Now I recommend it to all my students when
> they ask for a funny story and I have not had one come back disappointed.
>
> As a teenager, I somehow managed to miss out on young adult literature.
> That's something I got hooked on in library school. The Catcher in the Rye
> was a novel that resonated with me in high school, as it still does with
> so many teens today. Albert Camus's The Stranger also really spoke to me.
> It's really a perfect book for teens. There is no greater existential
> absurdity than adolescence.
>
>
> Ed Sullivan, M.S.L.S.
> 103 Oneida Lane
> Oak Ridge, TN, 37830
>
> "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
> -John Lennon-
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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